{"id":844650,"date":"2026-08-05T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844650\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:30:30","slug":"afl-draft-top-50-prospects-of-2026-after-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/844650\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft top 50 prospects of 2026 after national championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The under-18 national championships are over and clubs are starting to put together their draft boards ahead of what shapes as a deep 2026 AFL Draft. <\/p>\n

Our draft gurus \u2013 Chris Cavanagh and Dan Batten \u2013 have compiled their own list of the top 50 <\/a>prospects as things stand.<\/p>\n

Here are the players to watch <\/a>in the back end of the season, in a draft pool which appears to have something for everyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The under-18 national championships are over and clubs are starting to put together their draft boards ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[416510,416504,416505,638,416503,64,63,55,639,416508,23816,71926,163789,413860,3479,21920,416507,32604,416506,85,416509,391546,175806,356269,416497,416498,416499,416501,416500,416502,6618,52623],"class_list":["post-844650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-2026-afl-draft","tag-s-draft-picksafl-top-50-draft-rankings","tag-a-draft-pool","tag-afl","tag-all-the-bolters","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-chris-cavanagh-and","tag-clubs","tag-dan-batten","tag-deep","tag-every-club","tag-national-championships","tag-offer","tag-our-draft-gurus-chris-cavanagh-and","tag-ranked","tag-sliders","tag-sports","tag-the-2026-draft-rankings","tag-the-back-end","tag-the-players","tag-the-season","tag-the-top-50-2026-afl-draft-prospects","tag-the-top-50-prospects","tag-the-under-18-national-championships","tag-their-best-50-prospects","tag-their-draft-boards","tag-their-own-list","tag-time","tag-top-end-talent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}